Keysight Technologies Inc. — a technology company that aims to help enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation — has partnered with FormFactor Inc., a provider of test and measurement technologies along the full integrated circuit life cycle, and CompoundTek, a global foundry services company in emerging silicon photonic solutions, to accelerate integrated photonics innovations.
Silicon photonics multiply data transfer capacities while reducing power consumption and cost. While Silicon photonics offer an alternative to the limitations of traditional data center networking, they also introduce new design and test challenges for component and device manufacturers. Adoption is primarily dependent on an industrial ecosystem composed of new foundries, commercial modeling tools, and photonic test capabilities.